From the posting: Harvard Art Museums is searching for a Collections Information and Database Specialist. Come join us in our brand new building (see http://features.harvard.edu/arts-shining-future) and help make each and every datum in our systems live up to its fullest potential. Read more and apply: Collections Information and Database Specialist | Museums and the Web
From the announcement: Applications for the Scholars’ Lab‘s prestigious Graduate Fellowships in the Digital Humanities are now being accepted for the 2015-2016 academic year. Applications are due March 23, 2015. Source: Call for Applications, Graduate Fellowship in the Digital Humanities
My blog on February 2, about the Syuzhet package I developed for R (now available on CRAN), generated some nice press that I was not expecting: Motherboard, then The Paris Review, and several R blogs (Revolutions, R-Bloggers, inside-R) all featured the work. The press was nice, but I was not at all prepared for the focus to be placed on the one piece […]
Serious games for the serious work of history? ‘The culture at large’ as Katie Salen and Eric Zimmermann note ‘does not yet see games as a noble, or even particularly useful endeavour.’ Since those words were written in May 2003, there has been a marked transformation in the esteem with which digital games are regarded. […]
From the post: It’s been a fast year, and the first incarnation of THATCamp Council is coming to the close of its term. That means we’re looking for new members of the THATCamp Council! What is the THATCamp Council? The Council is seven experienced THATCamp organizers who provide guidance and direction to THATCamp in general. […]
From the announcement: We are pleased to issue an open call for applications to “Engaging the Public: Best Practices for Crowdsourcing Across the Disciplines.” This workshop, to be held at the University of Maryland in College Park, MD, on May 6-8, 2015, is being led by Dartmouth College and the University of Maryland, with the […]
From the post: How Do I Know If My Web Project Is Accessible? by Michael Beil I did a talk on accessibility this past Monday evening at Madison JavaScript, hosted at Widen Enterprises. The entire keynote is now over on Speaker Deck, so I thought that I would share it with you here. Here’s a list of […]
From the announcement: On Thursday, March 19, GAPSA will host a number of pre-conference workshops. Although the workshops are open to all, GAPSA encourages workshop participants to attend the conference on Friday also. DH Bridge DH Bridge is designed to encourage a diverse coding community in the digital humanities and so is open to scholars […]
infrastructure |ˈɪnfrəstrʌktʃə| (noun) – the basic physical and organizational structures and facilities (e.g. buildings, roads, power supplies) needed for the operation of a society or enterprise. – New Oxford American Dictionary Everything we have gained by opening content and data will be under threat if we allow the enclosure of scholarly infrastructures. We propose a […]
In his classic study Bowling Alone (2000), Robert Putnam argues that we have lost our connection to friends, family, neighbors, and our democratic structures. He warns that our “social capital” has plummted, leaving us emotionally and socially impoverished. We’re working harder, going to more meetings, but spending less time iwth friends, neighbors, and others. His […]
